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Communication, negotiation. Conversation. These are the skills that can be used at home. When we can create cooperation with our children, lead them without punishment, these children will be able to negotiate a world of peace. What's wonderful is these 5 skills of positive parenting accomplish this! And, many parents in response to this book all tell me, 'thank goodness this is here because my punishments aren't working!' I developed these ideas 20 years ago before I had children, by teaching classes to teens about to go to reform schools. Threats and punishments meant nothing to them. So, I had to become creative to manage and control them. And, I became successful. You can raise any child without needing to punish them if you understand the process. If you don't, you're left doing what our parents did which is now out of date. How are our children different as well? We live in a democracy that's only 200 years old, in the span of history, that's short. We've made changes based on democracy and freedom of choice that bring us human rights and the sense of entitlement that every adult has. That changes our business practices and government practices. Business have changed radically in the past 200 years. Futile lords, dictators and pirates ... into companies that in order to get ahead recognize employees rights. That's the climate we live in. Yet, parenting practices of punishment have not changed at all.